TRAVEMUNDE  , a seaport of

Germany, in the free state of Lubeck, situated on the Baltic, at the mouth of the Trave . Pop . (1905), 2017 . It has an Evangelical church, dating from the end of the 15th century, and is a much frequented watering-place . There are extensive herring fisheries . Travemunde arose out of a stronghold placed here by Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, in the 12th century to guard the mouth of the Trave, and the Danes subsequently strengthened it . It became a town in 1317 and in 1329 passed into the possession of the free city of Lubeck, to which it has since belonged . Its fortifications were demolished in 18o7 .